Thousands of drivers have been hit by bus lane fines after a council admitted it moved monitoring cameras.

The camera on Fowler Street, South Shields, has snared 1,942 drivers between April and June this year as South Tyneside Council’s income from bus lanes rocketed from £8,505 in 2015 to £81,245 in the first six months of 2017 alone.

South Tyneside Council first introduced in South Shields on Fowler Street, Sunderland Road and Westoe Road back in 2014, while another was installed on Edinburgh Road a year later.

Driver Mark Purves is one of almost 2,000 motorists to have been snapped in Fowler Street’s bus lane between April and June of this year alone.